The problem with networking is debugging it. The worst is debugging iptables and nftables. Figuring out which chain they are going to is a massive hassle. How come we don't have any graphical tools whatsoever for this work?
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There's nothing to debug, it's fucking DNS again, you know it is.
And then, even when it's not DNS, it's probably DNS.
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Oh networking is easy first you go to linkedin Then... You run
"networking" in the social sense or in the administration/programming sense?
Good one 🤣 I don't think I have ever used the word to mean "managing social networks" or the likes 🤣
It's a trick question anyway, most programmers are probably bad at both Ü
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I am so going to start to use computer networking terminology when talking about social networking from now on.
ACK
200 OK
Connection Timeout
502 Bad Gateway
ARP ARP ARP ARP ARP
(like a socially acceptable seal)
Cicadas be like
SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN
I would ping her, but I have no handler in the event of NACK
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I proposed to that girl, she sent me a 403 code
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If it helps, I'm from the other side of networking and infra. You could swap the labels and make the meme accurate for me.
In the mid 1980s I learn the BASIC programming command GOTO and fell in love for a lifetime. If you look any anything I used to write in Ruby script or today in Python you'll see my love affair with "if" "elfi" and "else" continues. My universe is nested "if" statements all the way down.
As a network engineer myself... python if/elif, and nested for loops are all you need
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If you like if statements, you'll love the python case statements for pattern matching
Ohhh nice! I could see replacing dozens of nested if statements with dozens of nested case statements!
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Please avoid nested if statements. Instead use early returns when possible.
This seems geared more towards programming languages like C++, whereas in scripting such as BASH it seems to me like it absolutely would get to be a mess to have so many functions, particularly those called only once (either total for the execution of the entire program or within the context of being inside another function, so once per function).
I am curious now what would Linus Torvalds say about that?
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In one college class we had to reimplement TCP in our own code on top of real UDP sockets. That was a fun class.
Fun, sarcasm?
I had a class where we did a similar thing, except it was re-inmplementing basic forms of internet and transport protocols on top of the link layer
And it was a really really fun class imo, no sarcasm
Why use UDP sockets when you can use raw Linux sockets with no encapsulation at all?
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And my boss shattering all with mean comments. Not letting me explain my code but still tearing it all down, removing all security features like checking for directory existing, connection is open aso. and then saying im not qualified for the job! Good thing i got already laid off. Bad that i'll still have to spend 3 months at this company
Ah man sorry to hear that. Trust in your skills, now it's actually a good time to make something.
I'm so sorry about your job. :(
Do you mean that you were trying to write network conscious/safe code and your boss disagreed and laid you off for that reason?
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I was like this 5 years ago. Networking a lot is still effort for me, but it is just another learnable skill, and it has lots of benefits (depending on your aims, I guess)
Edit: hah, just realised this is about connecting computers, not about talking to people...
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Only computer thing I still needed to call dad about as an adult.
Only wizards can configure iptables for ipv4 and ipv6 port forwarding. Only wizards.
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I may actually be the other way around. I'm probably better at networking than programming? Not sure, I love them both but do neither professionally.
tcpdump looks scary but is super neat and helpful, learn it if you haven't ;)
Still doesn't help with things like understanding routing and subnet masks and frame sizes and jfc how does any of this work
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I've enabled all the relevant permissions. I've disabled firewall protection. I've enabled file sharing on both sides. I've checked for connectivity to the other machine from the command line...
Why is my shared folder still not accessible!??!
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